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• Adriana van OERS, Etten-Leur (N.Br. Nl)
• , Wentworth Co
• Alida Zonneveld, Wijk aan Zee en Duin († 1971)
• Alma Elizabeth Gutknecht, Mosel, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States († 1970)
• Alice Violet Gwindoline Thompson, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica († 1904)
• * Jan Blok, Zwartewaal
• Aaltje Wielsma, Leeuwarderadeel, NL-FR
• Aldegonda Jacoba Lammers, Ginneken en Bavel
• Aaltje Snellenberg, Eefde (Gorssel)
• Adriaan Ferdinand Leonard Abrahami de Melverda, Buitenzorg, West-Java († 1948)

• Anna Maria van der Heijden (80), Echt, Niederlande
• Ada L. Litchfield (0), Allen County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Alexander Sandy Tabb (86), Mt. Pleasant, Titus County, Texas
• de Graaff, Rotterdam
• Albert Flokstra (72), Hijken (Beilen)
• Alexander (Sandy) Tabb (86), Mt. Pleasant, Titus Co., Texas
• Andries de Ridder (0), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annetje van den Brink (0), Nijkerk
• Anna Kenau Wilhelmina Gevers Deynoot (48), Zeist,Gemeente Zeist,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Arendje Buijs (16), Scheveningen, South Holland, Netherlands

• 1890 » Daniel J. Callaghan, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient († 1942)
• 1892 » Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player and manager († 1966)
• 1893 » George Grosz, German painter and illustrator († 1959)
• 1894 » Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher († 1963)
• 1895 » Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian († 1964)
• 1896 » Tim Birkin, English soldier and race car driver († 1933)
• 1897 » Harold D. Cooley, American lawyer and politician († 1974)
• 1897 » Paul Gallico, American journalist and author († 1976)
• 1900 » Sarah Kafrit, Israeli politician and teacher († 1983)
• 1903 » Estes Kefauver, American lawyer and politician († 1963)

• 1863 » Sam Houston, American general and politician, 7th Governor of Texas (b. 1793)
• 1867 » Otto, king of Greece (b. 1815)
• 1899 » Ulises Heureaux, 22nd, 26th, and 27th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1845)
• 1915 » James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (b. 1837)
• 1919 » Edward Poynter, English painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1921 » Howard Vernon, Australian actor (b. 1848)
• 1925 » Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1888)
• 1925 » Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848)
• 1925 » William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1926 » Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
• December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

The temperature on July 26, 1896 was about 22.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.